Throne of the Fallen (subtitle: Deception Is the Most Wicked Game of All), the first of Kerri Maniscalco‘s Prince of Sin novels, has a very interesting setting alongside some fairly standard event development for a paranormal romance. Sadly, I ended up having to drop it shortly after the vampire court segment started raising some serious questions about the female lead’s intelligence in regards to her actions before the book proper began.
While I felt Stuart Grosse‘s previous Lich Returnee novella was rather lacking, this twentieth entry is basically exactly what I’ve come to expect/enjoy from the series. Essentially, it’s an extension of the fourth novella (with some of the elements of the identically titled fifth) and focused entirely on detailing the setting’s magic system.